On 13/08/2014 10:05, Philip Barnes wrote:
On Wed, 2014-08-13 at 07:37 +0100, Lester Caine wrote:
But it's a bit like the 'name' problem where a few roads have locally
known names, but these are not displayed on signs :( Need recording but
not necessarily displaying.
I think thats an important point, there are many such roads in
Shropshire too. There needs to be a way of navigating to an address on
these roads, but we do need a method of indicating to the end user that
there is no sign, partly to tell routers to not say turn left into x
road, but also to give confidence to someone that they really are in the
right place when they haven't seen a sign.
name:unmarked maybe an option.
I'm currently using "name:signed=no" for these (
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/keys/name:signed ) but am open to
suggestion if there's a better tagging option.
When creating maps for the car I drop names from "name:signed=no" to
avoid receiving confusing verbal directions.
I have also used "ref:signed=no" for places (like the Derby Ring Road
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/278713952 ) where something is
undeniably the road ref but isn't included on signs - personally that
makes more sense to me than somehow trying to decide whether a ref
should be a "ref" or "official_ref"** (but I'm aware that I'm in a
minority on this!).
Cheers,
Andy
** FWIW prow_ref for footpaths and bridleways and bridge_ref for bridges
do make sense to me (it's a different list in each case).
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